MySpace.com works on plans to ensure the safety of minors on the Internet

Social-networking site MySpace.com has come up with a plan to ensure the safety of minors on the Internet.

As per the information available, MySpace disclosed new policies to guard its teenage users from online predators on the popular social networking site, including making the profiles of all 14 to 17-year-old teens private and creating new tools to check its users' ages.

"MySpace has adopted more than 60 specific changes in its design or function, in part because of the ongoing review and scrutiny that has been given it by law enforcement, parents and others," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said.

Principles adopted by MySpace put forward best practices for social networking site design, MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said.

MySpace already has incorporated most of the principles, and it will implement others in coming months, he said.

"These practices include reviewing every image and video uploaded to the site, ensuring that profiles of 14- and 15-year-olds are automatically made private and protected from adults they don't already know in the physical world, and deleting registered sex offenders from MySpace," he said.

Nigam says MySpace will now set older teens' profiles to "private", and will increase efforts to enforce the minimum sign-up age of 14.